Because, one, I don't HAVE any manners. None. And, two, most of my experience in this arena has been, like, trying to teach dogs where it's okay to pee and what not to bite. So my guide would read: "Be good, and you know perfectly well what I mean by good: don't bite anyone, don't potty in the house - and, yes, fandom counts as your house, don't take anyone else's chew toys or cushion, and for the love of god shut up; you can't bark at the neighbors just because they're different from us, and they have a perfect right to have fun in their own yard if they want to."
And then when fandom got wanky I would squirt everyone with water and then send them to their rooms.
Yes! Exactly and that first part right there we could print on small laminated cards that people could keep in their wallets or their cleavage for handy reference.
I think this is important and necessary. There should be tests and things, wherein you can partidicate even if you fail but you can also go for the advanced levels and become a TFV Certified fan with a nifty little certificate that you can frame and put on your wall like the guys at the oil change places who take all those courses to be able to identify the weight of oil by smell, or who have Advanced Filter Identification credentials.
You could do PODCASTS!!! Like the financial advisor lady!
I think you should write this guide. Seriosuly, I would start a trust fund or something so that everyone could have their own little version of The Guide, and it would be like one of those little devotional books, or the Book of Common Prayer - with little dailies that remind us not to be ugly to one another, to breathe deep and back away form the keyboard, to remember to use sunscreen.
this is important...have you seen this? http://tomomichi.livejournal.com/99146.html
because you know...you have gravitas and also gofiness. Those are important.
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And then when fandom got wanky I would squirt everyone with water and then send them to their rooms.
Yes! Exactly and that first part right there we could print on small laminated cards that people could keep in their wallets or their cleavage for handy reference.
I think this is important and necessary. There should be tests and things, wherein you can partidicate even if you fail but you can also go for the advanced levels and become a TFV Certified fan with a nifty little certificate that you can frame and put on your wall like the guys at the oil change places who take all those courses to be able to identify the weight of oil by smell, or who have Advanced Filter Identification credentials.
You could do PODCASTS!!! Like the financial advisor lady!
I think you should write this guide. Seriosuly, I would start a trust fund or something so that everyone could have their own little version of The Guide, and it would be like one of those little devotional books, or the Book of Common Prayer - with little dailies that remind us not to be ugly to one another, to breathe deep and back away form the keyboard, to remember to use sunscreen.
this is important...have you seen this? http://tomomichi.livejournal.com/99146.html
because you know...you have gravitas and also gofiness. Those are important.